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Taylor Hughes
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How I Learned to Stop Panicking and Love the Hack
Perfect code doesn’t matter as much as you think
In January 2010, I moved from Chicago to San Francisco to work at YouTube. After an amazing interview with super-smart folks, I was excited to learn how to develop software the Right Way in the big leagues. In the end, I learned more than I had hoped for — but only after coming to terms with the Right Way being nothing like what I expected. My previous gig was at a tiny network security infrastructure startup, where I was the sole UI engineer responsible for designing and building the web…
Taylor Hughes
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On-the-fly media upload processing with Go
How we make mobile photo and video uploads fast
Taylor Hughes
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How I Learned to Stop Panicking and Love the Hack
Perfect code doesn’t matter as much as you think
Taylor Hughes
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